Won't get past chime after installing Leopard

I just installed Leopard on my iMac PPC G5.  It calls for a shut down at the end of installation which it did.  Now it won't power back on.  Everytime it gets to the starting chime, it shuts down.  It was running fine before the installation of Leopard and now it's basically dead.  Any ideas?   I can't even get the disk out of the drive now and I'd like to.  Is there a way to get it out?   HELP!!!  

Okay, I believe that it's a heat related issue.  I took the back off and used a fan to cool everything.  It booted up just fine but the fans are running faster and louder than normal.  I loaded a temp monitor and the CPU temp is about 190 degrees F.   What should it be?  Is there something I need to do to fix this. The fans are runnning (at least they feel that way ont the top in the back and there is no restrictions that I can see with the back off.  Any ideas would be appreciated. 

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